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lsf_21

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best physical and mental game in the PBA
« on: February 09, 2008, 01:30:54 AM »
is chris barnes, NOBODY would be able to take and have the complete hearbreak just 2 weeks ago and be able to bounce back so well and make it to tv. I dont think theres anybody on tour who has a shorter memory that chris barnes, to be able to maybe not forget but to put it behind him and go out the very next week and bowl so well and make tv again. if it wasnt for the fact T.J. was on the show i would be rooting for barnes.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2008, 11:22:57 AM »
No doubt Barnes is a great bowler and has a ton of talent but I think walter ray williams has the best mental game in the PBA.  WRW is tough to beat on TV!
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2008, 11:24:56 AM »
Good... maybe... best in PBA (mental game speaking)... no.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2008, 11:30:47 AM »
I'd have to second WRW.  He's just phenominal.  Up until this yr. I would have ranked PDW right up there & still do, but not like WRW.  Also, Norm Duke is close behind WRW IMO. You're right about Barnes putting the defeats behind him, but he needs to win quite a few more before I put him w/WRW, Duke or PDW.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2008, 12:05:06 PM »
Maybe not the best but you have to give props to Rhino Page. The guy isn't even officially on the tour. Yet week in and week out he’s in there battling with some of the biggest names in bowling. And making it to TV finals. And he has to qualify just to do that. That has to be one of the best mental and physical displays of talent out there right now.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2008, 12:03:32 PM »
im gonna have to go with PB3 and TJ for the best physical and mental game on the tour.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2008, 12:57:33 PM »
Walter Ray and Mika Kovuniemi have the 2 best games out on tour today. Nothing fazes them.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2008, 12:57:57 PM »
Walter Ray and Mika Kovuniemi have the 2 best mental games out on tour today. Nothing fazes them.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2008, 01:01:23 PM »
Parker is toping my list for both
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2008, 01:01:43 PM »
Parker Bohn, Pete Weber, Walter Ray, Norm Duke.

Tommy Jones, Wes Malott.

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PS in that order.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2008, 01:13:25 PM »
Like Deadbait said, Del Ballard guttered when all he needed was 6? pins to win. He gave PDW the title(it was a major to boot!) and came back the next week to win. On his last shot he needed 4 pins or less and threw it straight and hard at the headpin. Never disappeared behind a curtain when he lost and congratulated Weber when he was probably dying inside. Pure professional.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2008, 01:23:57 PM »
Norm Duke would be my guy, i remember when Shafer rattled off at Duke not today Norm not today then Duke came back and kicked his azz. That was one of the best classic PBA moments of all time, there is nothing better than stuff like that and then Duke said nothing about it and let his ball do the talking.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2008, 04:15:53 PM »
Barnes has the best physical tools out there.  Big strong, can do everything.  But physical game...I don't know.  

Probably the most gifted at rolling a bowling ball is PDW.  PDW's base ability is so incredible, if he could have gotten his head straight, in my opinion we wouldn't be talking about WRW having passed Earl Anthony, we would be talking about PDW.  

Duke is a magician.  Without the raw physical tools, he makes the ball do what he wants.

But for sheer head into the game, WRW.  Roll ball over target. Repeat as needed.
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Re: best physical and mental game in the PBA
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2008, 04:18:29 PM »
IMHO ... Norm Duke
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